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You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
Clearly, when you win everything, it’s fun. That doesn’t necessarily mean you love the game more.
Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
Having twin girls is a life changer – that’s for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It’s the things you do.
I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you’ve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don’t know.
The serve, I was too young and too small and… not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that’s why I think it’s my strength also today, you know.
What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
I have learnt to be even more patient.
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
For me, it’s important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it’s got somebody’s name on the back. That’s kind of a cool thing.
My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it’s the one I’ve won all the points with.
The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.
We can’t always agree on everything.
I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.
Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn’t even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
You know, I don’t only play for the record books.
It doesn’t need to be the same every day, doesn’t need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I’ve always been very flexible. I don’t care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.
Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
I think it’s very hard for coaches to work with me. They’ll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they’re under a lot of pressure.
I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that’s what I was able to do today.
When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.
I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.
I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
I don’t need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can’t live without it. I’d be totally cool without tennis.
When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.